Marsha Stephanie Blake


Marsha Stephanie Blake is an American actress, known for her role as Linda McCray in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us, for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.

Life and career

Blake was born in Jamaica and immigrated to US in late 1980s with her family. She attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1996. She received an MFA from the graduate acting program at UCSD.
Blake has played many roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, include The Merchant of Venice, Come and Gone, The Crucible, An Octoroon, and Hurt Village. On television, she guest-starred in Law & Order, , Third Watch, Elementary, and The Good Wife.
In 2015, Blake joined the cast of Netflix comedy-drama series, Orange Is the New Black playing Berdie Rogers. Along with cast, she received Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. She also had a recurring roles on Happyish, Getting On and The Blacklist. In 2019, Blake played Linda McCray in the Netflix miniseries When They See Us directed by Ava DuVernay. Later in 2019, Blake was cast as Vivian Maddox in How to Get Away with Murder for the sixth and final season, and in fourth season of This Is Us opposite her When They See Us co-star, Asante Blackk.
Blake also has appeared in a number of movies, include The Architect, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Nasty Baby, Person to Person, Crown Heights, The Wilde Wedding, Luce, See You Yesterday and The Laundromat. She set to appear opposite Rachel Brosnahan in the drama film I'm Your Woman.

Filmography

Film

Television